# Cumulocity

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cumulocity/  
**Website:** https://www.cumulocity.com  
**APIs profiled:** 39

Cumulocity is an enterprise AIoT (Artificial Intelligence of Things) platform that connects, manages, and analyzes industrial assets from cloud to edge. Founded inside Software AG and divested via a 2025 management buyout into an independent company (sale announced alongside the IBM acquisition of Software AG's StreamSets and webMethods), Cumulocity provides a full-stack platform — REST and MQTT APIs, device management, digital twin modeling, streaming analytics powered by Apama, DataHub data-lake offload, Cockpit dashboards, and on-prem Edge deployments — validated at 100 million devices and 1 million messages/second across industrial equipment, medical devices, manufacturing, utilities, energy, transport, retail, and telecommunications.

## Kin Score — 62.7 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 73.8 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 47.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 92.1 |
| Access Clarity | 92.1 |

## Agent readiness — 31.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | documented |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium (free trial) · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: yes (confidence: high).

## APIs (39)

- **Cumulocity MQTT and SmartREST API** — Constrained-device MQTT broker fronting the Cumulocity REST API with a CSV-based SmartREST 2.0 payload format that saves up to 80% of mobile traffic versus JSON. Supports static...
- **Cumulocity MQTT Service API** — Standards-compliant, multi-tenant MQTT broker for application-level messaging that does not need Cumulocity's domain model. Topics are tenant-scoped, persistent, and bridgeable ...
- **Cumulocity Alarms API** — The Alarms API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for alarms.
- **Cumulocity Application Binaries API** — The Application Binaries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for application binaries.
- **Cumulocity Applications API** — The Applications API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for applications.
- **Cumulocity Asset Instances API** — The Asset Instances API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for asset instances.
- **Cumulocity Asset Models API** — The Asset Models API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for asset models.
- **Cumulocity Audit Records API** — The Audit Records API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for audit records.
- **Cumulocity Bayeux Handshake API** — The Bayeux Handshake API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for bayeux handshake.
- **Cumulocity Binaries API** — Binary attachments associated with managed objects.
- **Cumulocity Bootstrap Users API** — The Bootstrap Users API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for bootstrap users.
- **Cumulocity Bulk Operations API** — The Bulk Operations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for bulk operations.
- **Cumulocity Child References API** — Hierarchical relationships between managed objects.
- **Cumulocity Cloud Sync API** — The Cloud Sync API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for cloud sync.
- **Cumulocity Current User API** — The Current User API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for current user.
- **Cumulocity Device Credentials API** — The Device Credentials API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for device credentials.
- **Cumulocity Event Binaries API** — The Event Binaries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for event binaries.
- **Cumulocity Events API** — The Events API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for events.
- **Cumulocity External IDs API** — The External IDs API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for external ids.
- **Cumulocity Groups API** — The Groups API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for groups.
- **Cumulocity Managed Objects API** — Inventory documents representing devices, assets, groups, and digital twins.
- **Cumulocity Measurements API** — The Measurements API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for measurements.
- **Cumulocity New Device Requests API** — The New Device Requests API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for new device requests.
- **Cumulocity Offload Configurations API** — The Offload Configurations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for offload configurations.
- **Cumulocity Offload Jobs API** — The Offload Jobs API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for offload jobs.
- **Cumulocity Operations API** — The Operations API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for operations.
- **Cumulocity Queries API** — The Queries API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for queries.
- **Cumulocity Retention Rules API** — The Retention Rules API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for retention rules.
- **Cumulocity Roles API** — The Roles API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for roles.
- **Cumulocity Series API** — The Series API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for series.
- **Cumulocity Software Updates API** — The Software Updates API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for software updates.
- **Cumulocity Subscriptions API** — The Subscriptions API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.
- **Cumulocity Supported Measurements API** — Discover the measurement types reported against a managed object.
- **Cumulocity System API** — The System API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for system.
- **Cumulocity Tenant Options API** — The Tenant Options API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tenant options.
- **Cumulocity Tenant Statistics API** — The Tenant Statistics API from Cumulocity — 1 operation(s) for tenant statistics.
- **Cumulocity Tenants API** — The Tenants API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tenants.
- **Cumulocity Tokens API** — The Tokens API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for tokens.
- **Cumulocity Users API** — The Users API from Cumulocity — 2 operation(s) for users.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cumulocity Agentic Access** — 128 operations · 72 acting · 10 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Cumulocity Authentication** — http · 2 schemes
- **Cumulocity Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cumulocity Plans Pricing**

## Tags

IoT, Internet of Things, Industrial IoT, AIoT, Device Management, Digital Twin, MQTT, Edge Computing, Streaming Analytics, Data Lake

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cumulocity/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.
